A media memory palace; a place to put oddments and scraps; a notebook of cuts and slices, protected under fair use.
Boulder PoemsA small collection of poems about Boulder, CO.
Connecting LightA collection of poems by Frank B. Ford
Who Cares?Stories mercifully short
Bartleby the ScrivenerA Story of Wall Street. Illustrated with contemporary photographs by Paul Ford.
Thomas Hardy, Roman Ruins, CasterbridgeA section from The Mayor of Casterbridge that summarizes Hardy's historical vision - a mix of architectural, archeological, and human history, which humans ignore to their ignorant doom or observe to their eternal sadness. The beginning of Chapter 11, typed in from the Penguin Edition.
Lapham, UtopiaA virtuouso lambast of consumption culture from Lewis Lapham.
Rub it and Love itCookery and love, love, love
Documents Indicate...Ford motor company has damaged my brand equity, so I'm suing. This is, for those who have a little trouble with the concept and have seen fit to send me death threats, a joke.
PAC EvilJim Hightower encapsulates the horror of big money politics in a few paragraphs.
What's the difference between a liberal and a conservative?An extremely clear definition, from Booknotes, 1994
3 Kinds of PowerFrom John Kenneth Galbraith's The Anatomy of Power, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 4-6.
The Atomistic Machine View of the WorldR. C. Lewontin proposes a third approach to analysis.
Quotes: XMLMiscellaneous quotes on XML and related technologies
The Book of Joshua, Chapter 10The sun stands still in the sky.
Jealousy and LiteraturePet Van Sommers explains his feelings about analyzing jealousy through the lens of literature; from his 1988 book Jealousy.
George Washington as seen by William Carlos WilliamsFrom “George Washington” in In the American Grain, a collection of essays by William Carlos Williams, © 1933, (pp 142-144).
ElegyThis poem hung on my wall for years, until I began to look a little like it.
From the Universal Self-Instructor of 1883It is rude to stare at ladies in the street.
The Fiddler of DooneyFolk dance like a wave of the sea.
Montaigne's Internet Business PlanMontaigne - actually his father - predicts HotJobs.com, 430 years before an IPO.
Benjamin Franklin on Business EthicsWhen in doubt, sleep on the floor and drink water.
Benjamin Franklin on Moral PerfectionPractical advice on obtaining a perfectly moral bearing. From his autobiography.
My Financial CareerA classic from 1910.
Cooking of EggsThe table of contents from Many Ways for Cooking Eggs by Mrs. S. T. Rorer.
Wm. Gibson on TerrorismAuthor William Gibson nearly blows up the world.
Message to the Republican MobRap by a Democratic Congressman from New York, originally published in the Congressional Record, 23 July, 2002.